Word: protectively
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...about the organizations' financing and to photograph their leaders and determine their attitudes and home addresses. When the Washington police department organized a similar undercover operation, the CIA stopped its own project as unnecessary. Still the commission concluded that the CIA operation "went far beyond steps necessary to protect the agency's own facilities, personnel and operations, and therefore exceeded the CIA'S statutory authority...
Irritating Visit. Egypt considers the arms defensive. Sadat wants peace in Sinai to protect the Suez Canal, and he would undoubtedly welcome a U.S. guarantee. It would mean that Egypt could reach an informal agreement with Israel but would not be bound by a formal treaty or a politically unpalatable pledge of nonbelligerency until there was also agreement on the Syrian front and on the Palestinian issue. Some kind of understanding would protect moderates like Sadat from attacks by radical Arabs, notably the hard-lining Palestinians. In Tripoli last week, Libyan Leader Muammar Gaddafi, who is feuding with Sadat...
...Menlo Park, Calif., which has raised its premiums by a total of 200% in the past year, is leaving the state entirely on July 1. Doctors feel that the state legislature, which has already enacted a bill offering a doctor-owned alternative (TIME, June 9), must do more to protect them against the rising risk of being wiped out by malpractice suits. To ensure that it does, a number of doctors said last week that they were willing to withhold their services indefinitely. A few, who claimed that they would lose $15,000 a month by striking, insisted that they...
...regularly monitoring the volcano's activities from planes and helicopters and by remote instruments at the crater. The devices automatically signal any local tremors or changes in the character of the outpouring gases, both possible signs of imminent flows of lava from deep within the earth. Meanwhile, to protect the curious who have already descended on the area, the U.S. Forest Service has closed off the crater area to hikers and campers...
...Lawrence D. Benson, professor of English and chairman of the Standing Committee on Privacy and Security of Records, asked to review the law, put it. "To protect privacy, the amendment tried to destroy private-ness; to protect the individual, it tried to destroy individuality...